Me in 10 seconds
I’ve been a musician, producer, circus performer, entrepreneur, TED speaker, and book publisher.
Monomaniac, introvert, slow thinker, and love finding a different point of view.
California native, I now live in New Zealand.
Me in 10 minutes?
See my “about” page.
What am I doing now?
See my “now” page.
Contact me?
See why you should, though read my frequently asked questions, first.
Books
Anything You Want (2011)
40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur: my tales of starting, building, and selling CD Baby
Your Music and People (2020)
getting your work to the world by being creative, considerate, resourceful, and connected
Hell Yeah or No (2020)
thoughts around what’s worth doing, fixing faulty thinking, and getting things done
How to Live (2020?)
radically different approaches to life, in succinct directives
Podcast
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My private email list
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Projects
- Book Notes
- detailed notes from the last 250+ books I’ve read
- Now Now Now
- a collection of sites that have a “what I’m doing now” page
- MusicThoughts
- inspiring quotes about music, translated into Español, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Português, Русский, العربية, 日本語, and 中文
Videos
- TED (ted.com)
- 3 short talks from the TED Conference.
- Anything You Want
- 7 short animations from my book “Anything You Want”.
- Uncommon Sense
- Entrepreneur lessons learned from starting, building, and selling CD Baby.
- Conference Presentations
- Talks from other conferences, all subjects.
Interviews
You can listen to over 80 hours of interviews, where I’m the guest.
Each one has an MP3 you can download, or a transcript if you prefer to read.
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Tweets see all tweets
- November 24
- The Art of Living with Less Stress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amS0u15AL14 - from https://sive.rs/relax
- November 6
- “YOUR MUSIC AND PEOPLE” and “HELL YEAH OR NO” are here. The series has begun! More to come. Get them only at https://o.sive.rs/
- October 20
- My limited-edition signed hardcover book “YOUR MUSIC AND PEOPLE” finally arrived from the printer today! Shipping next week. https://m.sive.rs/YMaP-4x.mp4 (All thanks to https://saeah.com/ who produced it!)
- October 16
- “Your feelings are justified!” ← this is what everyone wants to hear
- September 12
- Real question: What's the difference between feminism and anti-sexism?
- September 1
- One of the best (and funniest) things I ever did was produce this album by “Captain T” : https://captaint.com/ + https://sive.rs/capt